A summary of the court case from the ACLU of Pennsylvania:
“In December 2004, the ACLU-PA sued the Dover Area School District on behalf of eleven parents who objected to the recent policy that required the teaching of intelligent design in biology classes as an alternative to evolution. We allege that intelligent design is stealth creationism and, therefore, teaching a religious doctrine in science class violates the Establishment Clause.
The six-week trial concluded on November 4, 2005. On December 20, 2006, Judge John E. Jones II issued a blistering 139-page opinion in which he found intelligent design to be a religious view and not a scientific theory.” (ACLU Link)
This is a large and complex court case regarding several players, both for and against Intelligent Design, for and against the traditional definition of what science “is” and “isn’t,” and the relevant media types (journalists, bloggers, commentators, etc.) who offered up their own interpretation of events. The goal of this project is to track this controversy and attempt to answer several questions as laid out in the controversy project goal (listed on SCI 361U course website), including what are the central concerns of the dispute, what is black-boxed, where is this dispute taking place, what is its history, what part involves the experts, and what part involves the public?
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